Surface Waves in Anisotropic and Laminated Bodies and Defects Detection

- Foreword

- I. Theoretical problems concerning propagation of surface wave in elastic anisotropic media:
... On the role of anisotropy in crystalloacoustics
... Surface waves of non-Rayleigh type
... Nonlinearity in elastic surface waves acts nonlocally
... Explicit secular equations for surface waves in an anisotropic elastic half space from Rayleigh to today

- II. Bending and edge waves in plates and shells:
... "Nongeometrical phenomena" in propagation of elastic surface waves
... Complex rays and internal diffraction at the cusp edge
... Edge waves in the fluid beneath an elastic sheet with linear nonhomogeneity
... On continuum modelling of wave propagation in layered medium: bending waves
... Edge-localised bending waves in anisotropic media: energy and dispersion

- III. Experimental, numerical and semi-analytical methods for analysis of surface waves:
... Surface electromagnetic perturbations induced by unsteady-state subsurface flow
... Resonant waves in a structured elastic half space
... Mumerical analysis of Rayleigh waves in anisotropic media
... Guided waves in anisotropic media: applications
... A general purpose computer model for calculating elastic waveguide properties, with application to non-destructive testing
... The influence of the initial stresses on the dynamic instability of an anisotropic cone
... Embedding theorem and mutual relation for the interface and shear wavespeeds

- IV. Applications of surface waves to analysis of fracture and damage:
... The non-uniqueness of constant velocity crack propagation
... Embedding formulae for planar cracks
... Wave propagation and crack detection in layered structures

- Author index